Body Found in Lake by NU

Well, this is disturbing:

Divers this morning were pulling a body out of Lake Michigan just off the Northwestern University campus in Evanston.

A call came in about 11 a.m. of a body in the lake off of the 2200 block of Campus Drive in Evanston, police said.

Northwestern University spokesman Alan Cubbage said university police responded and an Evanston Fire Department dive team went into the water to pull the body to shore.

"They're pulling it in right now," Cubbage said.

He said the operation was ongoing as of 11:30 a.m. and he had no information on the victim.

The Cook County medical examiner's office was notified of a fatality, but further details were not immediately available, an office spokesman said.

Evanston police were unavailable for comment.

More details as they are available.

Update
This is the latest version of the story from the Chicago Tribune:

The body of a man was pulled from Lake Michigan this morning just off the Northwestern University campus in Evanston after a kayaker spotted it in about eight feet of water, officials said.

The kayaker was about 100 yards offshore near the 2200 block of North Campus Drive in the north suburb when he saw what appeared to be a body about 11 a.m., Evanston Fire Department Chief Samuel Hunter said.

"The water was relatively clear, and as he looked down he was able to see the body," Hunter said. The man signaled to two people who were in-line skating on the shoreline bicycle path, and they called 911, Hunter said.

A fire department dive team was called to the scene, and they pulled the body from the lake after being in the water only eight minutes, Hunter said. "We had a very good location on it," he said.

The body was that of an Asian man, possibly in his 30s, Hunter said. It appeared the body had been in the water "for quite some time," he said.

Hunter said the man was fully clothed and wearing shoes, and bore no obvious signs of trauma.

The Cook County medical examiner's office was notified of a fatality, but further details were not immediately available, an office spokesman said.

Evanston police Deputy Chief Joseph Bellino said the case was being handled as a death investigation. He had no immediate information on the victim's identity or whether he matched any recent missing person reports.